On Critisms upon Novels About Gods and Devils

The novels about gods and devils of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty,represented by Journey to the West,are among the fantastic flowers of Chinese novels.They have created a fantastic world,produced distinctive aesthetic effect,and fostered and enriched the psychology of aesthetic appreciation of the Chinese nation.The aesthetic criticism of novels about gods and devils reveals the aesthetic core of this kind of novel--phantom and its composition and greatly enriches the theory of Chinese ancient novels,thus filling the theoretical blank of realistic novels.